A Rare Chinese Large Inscribed Blue and White Rectangular Tray The interior tray is finely decorated with the ’Three Friends of Winter’ pine, prunus and bamboo issuing from rock work next to an eight line poetic inscription translated as follows; ’Gold and silver, musical instruments made of bamboo, together with beautiful jade. Those things are well known and appreciated through all ages, I remember that in the dream there were poets being composed. The beautiful verses are more precious than anything Cheng Kai (scholar’s name 1453 - 1512) ’, the shallow sides with fruiting branches of peaches on the interior, and oval panels depicting mountainous river landscapes reserved on diaper work on the exterior sides, raised on four low canted supports, the glazed back with numerous prunts and inscribed in the center with a square seal mark of Jiaqing in underglaze blue. Period: Jiaqing mark and of the period (1796‑1820). Length: 36.5 cm.